Congenital heart disease

Congenital heart disease is the defect resulting from abnormal development of cardiac function.

Congenital heart defects occur in approximately 8: 1000 births.

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There is a wide range of cardiac abnormalities and they can range from asymptomatic and clinical fatal. In most cases, congenital heart disease have a number of causes (multifactorial defects), but in some cases they are associated with chromosomal abnormalities (Down’s syndrome, Turner syndrome, trisomy 13 and trisomy 18), defects in specific genes, teratogenic disorders or metabolic diseases of mother.

Congenital heart disease:

Patent ductus arteriosus

Pulmonary artery stenosis

Mitral insufficiency

Hypertrophic cardiomyopathy

Ventricular septal defect (VSD)

Atrial septal defect (ASD)

Coarctation of the aorta

Atrioventricular cushions

Aortic valve stenosis

Transposition of the great arteries

Tricuspid atresia

Arterial trunk

Anomalous pulmonary venous connection

Abnormal discharge of the left coronary artery from the pulmonary artery – ALCAPA

Tetralogy of Fallot